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speaking of math...
there are 4.2M blocks of stone in the great pyramid.
7300 days is 20 years, the time period you are suggeting.
Divide 4.2M by 7300.
Under your conception and that or orthodox egyptology they worked around the clock and laid down 575 blocks per day ranging from a ton to 100 tons...and did it perfectly.
OK....and to make the assertion even more ridiculous, that speaks nothing of the planning (with incredible accuracy and complexity regarding the interior) OR actually quarrying and moving the stones.
This is a dumb argument and it's dissapointing to be having it with someone who has a degree...in engineering no less.
The Indiana quarry that provided the limestone for the empire state building (there is 30 times the stone in the Great Pyramid as in the Empire State Building...btw) said that at full capacity using modern equipment it would take them 20 years to cut and transport the amount of stone in the great pyramid...working 24/7 which is 3 times normal work load.
The time period for completion argument can just be ended here...or you can try to come up with some sort of rebuttal, but the math, as you like to appeal to, is above. Want to change your opinion after having thought about this a bit more?
Oh, and just to add insult to injury, this math doesn't include the smooth white limestone facing stones which are now missing from the facade of the pryamid...and incidentally make a up a large portion of modern day Cairo.
The math seems fine to me...
https://www.cheops-pyramide.ch/khufu-pyramid/pyramid-workers.html
Seems quite intensive, but very possible with a 20 year timeline. If they even extended the timeline by just 10 years, you have an incredible realistic number.

